GeoNames Forum

Hi Mark,

I would like to give the altname_id 1594509 (Abu Dhabi) the "preferred" tag, but my authorization is not sufficient for that.

Reason is that in our website (currently test.femalepressure.net) we display english names. For that we have a query on altnames which is (it's a postgres db) unique on geo_id, so it picks the first entry (language en or null) depending on the sort:
order by geo_id, lang_code, ispreferred, isshort desc, altname_id desc

I need isshort to be desc, because otherwise we would display some of our members to live in Indpls instead of Indianapolis.

Could you set the "preferred" tag for me?

Best regards, Andreas